Computer science is approaching a crisis that some CS experts say could fuel a renaissance of ideas. Very soon, mainstream computers will need an easy-to-use parallel programming model to tap into ...

Write program to run in parallel? Yes. Did you remember to use a Scalable Memory Allocator? No? Then read on … In my experience, making sure “memory allocation” for a program is ready for parallelism ...

In the world of technical computing, discussions about parallel programming focus on customizing algorithms to utilize hardware effectively. Fueling these discussions are several factors related to ...

James Reinders, Intel's head of software development products, sets out some of the company's plans for encouraging more developers to switch to parallel programming. With many programmers barely ...

Supercomputers often conjure up images of government labs with racks of processors and little concern for budgets. Actually, highperformance servers and clusters of multiple processors are in wide use ...